What should i do to get listing in DMOZ?

[Handsome]

Good Luck it take around 3 month to 12 month to approve DMOZ listing...

[Anonymously]

The truth is no one knows how long it can take for a site to be listed in DMOZ.

First of all editors are volunteers, that means that they can spend a lot of time or just a small amount of time editing. Sometimes editors who normally spend many hours a week have to do a lot less because of their personal circumstances. It is, remember, our hobby. The object of our hobby is to build a directory by human hand that we think has the best (ie carrying unique content) sites on the web. Sometimes editors will believe they can do this by primaraily looking at the suggestions list, other will believe that they want to go and find sites using search, other sites, newspapers etc etc and not use the suggestions list.

Also sites suggested to the directory are just that, suggestions. Some editors, as I have said above will review those sites some hardly use the suggestions pages.

We never describe ourselves as a listing service, so when a site is suggested it will have to wait until an editor reviews it and that can be a few days to a few years.

Submitting again and again can get one seen as being a spammer.

If a site complies with the guidelines then at some stage it will be reviewed and will be included, if it does not comply it will be rejected. We also do not do site checks because if it complies with guidelines its waiting and if not it has been or will be rejected. Neither do we advise if the site is rejected.

Best advice
Make sure your site has unique content
submit to the correct category
Use the title on the site or the company name as the title for suggestion
Look at the descriptions in the category and try to copy them for your description
Submit and forget
Go and promote your site somewhere else, there is nothing more you can do at DMOZ.

Trust me I am an editor.

[donald]

I am planning to apply for getting my site on the DMOZ. What factors should I keep in mind before applying?

First of all A VERY GOOD LUCK TO YOU.......
just make your site as best as you can...!
there should be no limitation for that that it is enough and so on.....
try to include a really very good content in it......
and also try to update them every day is possible.........
this can be achieved by a lot of hard work...
so try it and
BEST LUCK....
its not impossible........

[Anonymously]

With regard to teh comments Donald has made
Good quality must equal unique content. If you have a fantastic site which has links to all sorts of areas and sites but has no unique content of its own, it should not be listed.
Page rank and how well the site is built has no bearing on a listing either.
I have never yet checked to see if a site has been updated daily, unless that is what it claimed to do! So if it was a blog that said daily updates and it managed once a month, it probably would not be listed. Even out of date sites have a historical value, but so ong as its a shopping site that offers 2009 price lists and not 1999 then its likely to be OK.

Trouble mostly is that good sites are offered, but we are not a listing service and editors often want to build categories using a mixture of sources and that means we say that a review will happen sometime from a few days to a few years. No one can tell when a site will be reviewed, but when it is if it complies with guidelines it will be listed.

So unique content, correct category, guideline compliant title and description submit then go and forget and promote your site elsewhere. There is nothing more that you can do short of becoming an editor.

[mario king]

Dmoz seems to be very frutrating, my site was refused twice and another site I had was also refused. As far as I know there was no broken links in the sites which may affect entry. I was thinking of becoming a dmoz volunteer just to help get my site listed which is a bit drastic i think...

[Anonymously]

Dmoz seems to be very frutrating, my site was refused twice and another site I had was also refused. As far as I know there was no broken links in the sites which may affect entry. I was thinking of becoming a dmoz volunteer just to help get my site listed which is a bit drastic i think...

Can you tell me how you knew your site was refused twice?
Did you mean to say that you broke the guidelines of DMOZ that you said you had read when you suggested the site and that you had submitted it twice, but you have not seen it listed?
Suggested sites don't get lost, they wait for an editor to volunteer to work that section and that can be a long time. At best you could have disadvantaged your site because the date stamp on it would be the newest submission and sometimes we just treat several suggestions as spam and do what everyone does with spam. If you do apply to become and editor, be aware that our acceptance procedure does smell out those who really want to join just to list their site....and get refused.